Thursday, December 23, 2004
Encyclopedias
Numerous misprints and typographical errors disfigure Robert C. Berring and Elizabeth A. Edinger, Finding the Law, 11th edition (St. Paul: West Group, 1999). But a repeated error on p. 301 cannot be ascribed to the typesetter, if typesetters exist anymore. (Proofreaders are also evidently a near extinct species.) Berring and Edinger are under the curious misapprehension that the word encyclopedia in English is both singular and plural:
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- "The most imposing sets are legal encyclopedia." (plural)
- "A legal encyclopedia arrays significant legal topics in alphabetical order..." (singular)
- "The most imposing are the national legal encyclopedia." (plural)
- "Only a fool cites to legal encyclopedia as pervasive authority." (plural)
- "But for all their faults, legal encyclopedia have virtues." (plural)
- "Perhaps best for the legal researcher, the modern legal encyclopedia places one into a research universe." (singular)
- "Both the major legal encyclopedia are now published under the West Group." (plural)
